South Wales Police say 25-year-old James Osmond committed a number of offences in the Swansea area from January 13 to 30 this year. Offences included three counts of driving dangerously and one count of using a motor vehicle without third-party insurance.
After initially pleading not guilty to the dangerous driving offences, Osmond changed his plea to guilty in June.
He has been sentenced to three years in prison and has been disqualified for holding or obtaining a driving licence for four years and six months.
Osmond has a history of motoring, drugs and offensive weapons offences. In 2023 he pleaded guilty to affray and to possession of an offensive weapon after his part in a gang attack on a vehicle at a busy Swansea junction that saw the vehicle hit with baseball bats and left two men with stab injuries.
In January 2021 Osmond was jailed for aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving after driving a friend’s car “erratically” through Gendros. That offence happened just weeks after Osmond had been released from a young offenders institution after serving less than a third of a sentence for conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
PC Ceriann Howell from South Wales Police said: “James Osmond is unfortunately an individual who believes that the laws of the road do not apply to him.
“His driving was a menace to other road users and could have resulted in him or others being caused a serious injury.
“With his prison term and losing his driving licence, the roads are now a safer place without him.”
